Damn both my favorite sports podcasts shitting on my team days apart. It’s well deserved but was hoping our ineptitude wouldn’t be blasted to the masses like this…
Dylan245
Can Zach please get Stacey King back on the show again
Friedell hates us so much and is such a horrible person to talk Bulls with
I get Stacey isn’t the most analytical guy in the world but my god it beats hearing Friedell whine and complain
Shit even get Kenny on here, pretty sure Zach follows him on Twitter and he is at least very fair and critical in his own right but is way better than Nick
KareemAbdulMyJeans
The eternal optimists are gonna hate this one
Edit: Everyone asking for literal employees of Jerry Reinsdorf’s media company to go on instead explains so much
Da-Kooks
Look I’m down on the Bulls like everyone else, but miss me with ANYTHING Friedell. So happy he’s out of market now and no longer covers the team.
weareallmoist
Zach Lowe is low on the bulls in a reasonable way as someone who follows the league, friedell is just gleefully cackling with hatred for every aspect of the organization and it just genuinely sucks to listen to.
Like I get it’s not a big deal but it sucks that the go to guest to talk about the bulls on the biggest nba podcast is someone who 1) hates the team and 2) clearly doesn’t watch the team or understand the dynamics at play.
The way he talks about LaVine is the most telling, Zach could easily be the second or third best player on a great team, but he’s just been stuck on mediocre teams his whole career, and friedell takes this to mean he couldn’t contribute to winning? Like he acted like Zach on the heat would never hurt, I’m sure the heat would love to have Zach next to jimmy and bam lmao.
ThrobbinRicke
We have to get literally anyone other Friedell to talk about the bulls. Aside from the fact he had awful takes and coverage of the team when he was around, he’s been away from the team the entire post-Jimmy and garpax era so anything he has to say is irrelevant.
Listened to this pod anyway and his takes on LaVine are awful. He’s definitely a flawed player but in a world where Poole, Herro, Middleton, etc make 30+ mil he’s fine. The Vuc trade was way too much but it also opened the door for other free agents to come and he’s been productive for what he makes. And maybe lonzo’s health was ****Ed from before they signed him but he’s assuming a lot there.
vikingrunner
I get Lowe needs to have ESPN people on, but no more Friedell on the Bulls please. Lowe almost seemed annoyed by Freidell’s pessimism especially with regards to LaVine being an irredeemable good stats/bad team guy by the end.
Get KC or someone who actually currently covers the team on. Even Bill Simmons had Goff on (though Goff is under the Ringer umbrella which helps).
RespectYoSmelf
Nick Friedell is a troll, literally the negative for no reason type guy people pretend Cowley is.
kingjuicepouch
Leave it to Friedell to completely misrepresent the Zach Thibs relationship.
He wanted to keep Zach in Minnesota but garpax wouldn’t do the deal without him. Friedell is talking like Thibs hated him immediately then and still hates him now. What a clown
bullpaw
I fucking hate Nick Friedell
Fine-Hat-4573
Very rare to hear Lowe get kind of pissed off at his guest. Zach was not liking the troll level of Nick and it honestly gave me a headache.
automatotomatoes
I don’t know how anyone can hear him from inside of LeBron’s ass
justincresswell
Friedell is such an unprofessional clown. Performative laughing every minute. Negativity. Jack. Ass. Can’t stand him.
ennuinstein
Tons of great local coverage of the team from Bulls bloggers and journalists out there, and Lowe brings this clown back on again…the Bulls have been (maybe deservedly) an afterthought in national coverage for a while. Obviously we’re all frustrated with the team, but it just feels low-effort by ESPN to roll out a guy who hasn’t covered the team in a decade to beat a dead horse.
Rakatok
Why the hell does Lowe always bring this dipshit on to talk about the Bulls? He has not covered us in years. He actively hates the team and enjoys shitting on them at every opportunity. It’s like bringing on Skip Bayless as your LeBron expert.
Surely there is SOMEONE else at ESPN who can talk about us. Every other team guy Lowe brings on at least likes the team they cover.
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Damn both my favorite sports podcasts shitting on my team days apart. It’s well deserved but was hoping our ineptitude wouldn’t be blasted to the masses like this…
Can Zach please get Stacey King back on the show again
Friedell hates us so much and is such a horrible person to talk Bulls with
I get Stacey isn’t the most analytical guy in the world but my god it beats hearing Friedell whine and complain
Shit even get Kenny on here, pretty sure Zach follows him on Twitter and he is at least very fair and critical in his own right but is way better than Nick
The eternal optimists are gonna hate this one
Edit: Everyone asking for literal employees of Jerry Reinsdorf’s media company to go on instead explains so much
Look I’m down on the Bulls like everyone else, but miss me with ANYTHING Friedell. So happy he’s out of market now and no longer covers the team.
Zach Lowe is low on the bulls in a reasonable way as someone who follows the league, friedell is just gleefully cackling with hatred for every aspect of the organization and it just genuinely sucks to listen to.
Like I get it’s not a big deal but it sucks that the go to guest to talk about the bulls on the biggest nba podcast is someone who 1) hates the team and 2) clearly doesn’t watch the team or understand the dynamics at play.
The way he talks about LaVine is the most telling, Zach could easily be the second or third best player on a great team, but he’s just been stuck on mediocre teams his whole career, and friedell takes this to mean he couldn’t contribute to winning? Like he acted like Zach on the heat would never hurt, I’m sure the heat would love to have Zach next to jimmy and bam lmao.
We have to get literally anyone other Friedell to talk about the bulls. Aside from the fact he had awful takes and coverage of the team when he was around, he’s been away from the team the entire post-Jimmy and garpax era so anything he has to say is irrelevant.
Listened to this pod anyway and his takes on LaVine are awful. He’s definitely a flawed player but in a world where Poole, Herro, Middleton, etc make 30+ mil he’s fine. The Vuc trade was way too much but it also opened the door for other free agents to come and he’s been productive for what he makes. And maybe lonzo’s health was ****Ed from before they signed him but he’s assuming a lot there.
I get Lowe needs to have ESPN people on, but no more Friedell on the Bulls please. Lowe almost seemed annoyed by Freidell’s pessimism especially with regards to LaVine being an irredeemable good stats/bad team guy by the end.
Get KC or someone who actually currently covers the team on. Even Bill Simmons had Goff on (though Goff is under the Ringer umbrella which helps).
Nick Friedell is a troll, literally the negative for no reason type guy people pretend Cowley is.
Leave it to Friedell to completely misrepresent the Zach Thibs relationship.
He wanted to keep Zach in Minnesota but garpax wouldn’t do the deal without him. Friedell is talking like Thibs hated him immediately then and still hates him now. What a clown
I fucking hate Nick Friedell
Very rare to hear Lowe get kind of pissed off at his guest. Zach was not liking the troll level of Nick and it honestly gave me a headache.
I don’t know how anyone can hear him from inside of LeBron’s ass
Friedell is such an unprofessional clown. Performative laughing every minute. Negativity. Jack. Ass. Can’t stand him.
Tons of great local coverage of the team from Bulls bloggers and journalists out there, and Lowe brings this clown back on again…the Bulls have been (maybe deservedly) an afterthought in national coverage for a while. Obviously we’re all frustrated with the team, but it just feels low-effort by ESPN to roll out a guy who hasn’t covered the team in a decade to beat a dead horse.
Why the hell does Lowe always bring this dipshit on to talk about the Bulls? He has not covered us in years. He actively hates the team and enjoys shitting on them at every opportunity. It’s like bringing on Skip Bayless as your LeBron expert.
Surely there is SOMEONE else at ESPN who can talk about us. Every other team guy Lowe brings on at least likes the team they cover.